When Shen Jianyi saw those messages, her brows knitted tightly together, and her expression was unusually solemn.
"Got captured again?"
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi turned her head and saw the man standing on a high place, looking down at her with a bit of schadenfreude.
She shrugged. "I'm not sure. There are so many people trying to capture me. I don't even know who they are."
There's no need to tell Gun too much truth now. The more you say, the more likely you are to make mistakes. Some words are better left engraved in your heart forever.
She didn't answer this question. Instead, Gun looked indifferent and said casually, "Maybe these two groups are in cahoots."
"How is that possible?" Shen Jianyi scoffed. "They're kind of rivals, aren't they?"
"You've really had a rough time."
Now Gun was getting more and more sarcastic. Shen Jianyi was too lazy to bother with him. She just replied to Xia Liang's message, sending her a location. She wasn't sure when Xia Liang would arrive.
Before they reached the mountaintop, Shen Jianyi looked to the side and saw a large group of people approaching. Those people should be the ones who initially tried to hunt her down. She wondered if Zhou Ze was among them.
Maybe, as she guessed, Zhou Ze was Xu Wenji.
Otherwise, they had no grudges against each other. Why would he want to kill her? Just thinking about it made Shen Jianyi feel helpless.
It seemed that she had to be extra careful of anyone who came close to her in the future to avoid falling into Xu Wenji's trap.
It took them a long time to reach the mountaintop. The mountaintop was completely empty.
There were only a few green grass plants around. Although it was a mountain, it gave a desolate feeling. Shen Jianyi frowned and looked at the man beside her.
Gun was starting to stagger. The sweat on his forehead trickled down his cheek inside the mask and onto his neck.
If this continued, even if his mask had an automatic heat - dissipation function, he couldn't wear it all the time. He might damage his face.
Shen Jianyi took off her mask and warned, "If you don't take off your mask, you might really disfigure yourself. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your wife. Do you think she'd like an ugly man?"
"Would you like me then?" Even though Gun was seriously injured, he still knew how to sweet - talk.
To Shen Jianyi, this man was really unpredictable. When they didn't know each other, he seemed very aloof. But now that they knew each other, he had become a chatterbox and would say anything.
Shen Jianyi was too lazy to bother with him. His mouth was always out of line. He couldn't say a single normal thing.
"Take off your mask." She repeated and slowly walked towards him.
She raised her arm, trying to take off the man's mask, but he dodged. He refused to take it off no matter what.
"Gun! Just as I said, if you really keep this up and rot your face, you'll have nowhere to cry."
Gun scoffed indifferently. "Then let it rot. My wife won't dislike me."
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi said she didn't want to listen to him anymore. Almost nine out of ten sentences Gun said were about his wife. Could it be that he was hen - pecked at home?
Just thinking about it made Shen Jianyi find it inexplicably funny.
The two of them sat on the rocks on the mountaintop, watching the sun gradually set.
The setting sun hung in the sky, its pink color was gorgeous. Shen Jianyi leaned against a big tree, looking up at the beautiful scenery.
"It's so beautiful."
If she could watch the sunset with Lu Jinsheng now, it would surely be a very romantic thing. But unfortunately, she could only watch it with Gun.
"Gun, were you scared when you fell off the cliff?"
Hearing this, the man lowered his voice, sounding extremely cold and hoarse. "Scared of what?"
"Scared of never seeing the person you like again, and scared of never being able to resolve your inner obsession." Shen Jianyi turned to look at him. Although there was a mask between them, she could feel that the man's mood was probably similar to hers at this moment.
But unexpectedly, Gun laughed out loud. "Not scared, because she's far away in the sky but right in front of me."
"Right in front of me?"
Shen Jianyi looked around. There was no one else on this mountaintop except the two of them. So who was this person right in front of Gun?
A dangerous thought flashed through her mind, but she quickly dismissed it. It was just too absurd. After all, he was already married.
To avoid the awkwardness, Shen Jianyi coughed lightly. "I know you're a good man, but you shouldn't do anything to betray your family."
"I won't." Gun half - closed his eyes. That white mask was really a spoilsport.
The woman beside him heaved a sigh of relief. Thinking about his words again, there was another possibility. Maybe Gun's wife had already left this place and gone to a beautiful place. This possibility was quite high.
Shen Jianyi propped her hands on the ground. She didn't know when Xia Liang would come. Every minute and every second here was almost torture for her.
The atmosphere on the mountaintop was extremely quiet.
Gun suddenly asked curiously, "Have you thought about how you'll face Lu Jinsheng when you get back? He probably doesn't know you've run out, does he?"
"Of course he doesn't," Shen Jianyi lowered her head. She thought she could solve the problem in a short time, but it had already been delayed for several days. "But I can't contact him either. I'll figure it out when I get back."
"That's true..." Gun seemed to have something else to say, but in the end, he chose to remain silent.
Time passed bit by bit.
In the blink of an eye, the sun had set. The beautiful sunset had long been enveloped by the thick darkness, with not a glimmer of light showing.
The earth and the sky were shrouded in the night. Shen Jianyi leaned against the big poplar tree, feeling drowsy.
Xia Liang was really being slow this time. In the past, she would definitely arrive at the first moment. It seemed that the research institute was really serious about dealing with her this time.
Just as the woman was about to fall asleep, Gun suddenly covered her mouth. She was startled and heard footsteps in the distance.
It seemed that these people were really persistent. They wouldn't stop searching until they found something.
Shen Jianyi gritted her teeth and whispered in the man's ear, "Fight or run?"
"What do you think?"
Hearing this, a smug smile curled up on Shen Jianyi's lips. Then she put on the red fox mask. "Climbing the mountain is so tiring. They must have run out of energy. Of course, we should take this opportunity to attack."
She tightly held the fruit knife in her hand and turned around to go, but she was grabbed by an inexplicably strong force and pulled back. The woman fell to the ground, but the expected pain didn't come.
Shen Jianyi opened her eyes and saw the man only a few millimeters away from her.